Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:00, csj wrote:
> Some ex-X coders have already forked XFree86. There's already an
> established dri project at sourceforge which is responsible for
> creating the more bleeding edge 3D support for X (note the use of the
> relative "more").
Judging from all the pother attempts at establishing a new graphic frontend,
the only thing that will keep Xouvert from just vanishing is - sadly - its X
heritage. DRI is all nice but it lacks vendor support (Radeon 9[5-9]00? no
chance unless the Weather Channel gets nice once more) and if a vendor is so
nice to publish drivers there's a guarantee somewhere in the GPL (which
doesn't even apply to Xfree) that some f***** zealots will curse them to hell
and back for not being open source.
There's a problem of legacy (X itself) and mentality (hardcore GNU dunces)
which has been successfully keeping back *nix from the masses since
inception. It's middle management all over again.
And thanks for picking up my point.
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